WACO, Texas - Baylor track and field athletes Taylor Bennett and Wil London were named the Big 12 Athletes of the Week, the league announced Wednesday.

Bennett and London are the first Bears to sweep the conference's outdoor honors since Trey Harts and Erin Bedell accomplished the feat on April 21, 2009. It marks the first freshmen sweep of the award for any conference institution since Texas A&M's Julian Reid and Jessica Beard did so the week of April 15, 2008.

It is the first outdoor honor for each of the freshmen to win. However, Bennett was already recognized during the indoor season. Baylor track and field athletes have now won four weekly awards from the Big 12 this year. George Caddick was also honored during the indoor season along with Bennett. The four awards won in a single year is tied for the second most in program history with 2015's total and behind the five captured in 2004.

Bennett highlighted Saturday's Baylor Invitational in Waco by winning two individual titles and helping the 4x400-meter relay take top honors as well.

The Spring, Texas, native opened her day by winning the 100-meter dash in a stadium record time of 11.38. That mark is currently 15th-fastest in the NCAA for 2016 and was .23 seconds faster than any other runner in the field.

Ninety minutes later, Bennett returned to the track and wowed the crowd of 1,313 fans by turning in a 22.71 to capture the 200-meter crown. That time ranks third in school history, second-best in the NCAA for 2016 and was also a stadium record. The only person to run a faster 200-meter time at Baylor is the most decorated All-American in program history, Tiffany Townsend. Bennett is the only runner in the NCAA's current top-10 list for the 200 meters to have run her race in to the wind (1.0m/s).

For an encore, Bennett ran the third leg for the 4x400-meter relay, which also consisted of Justise Dayries, Kiana Horton and Jessica Purtell. That crew used a stadium record time of 3:36.16 to win that event.

Since 2001, six different Baylor women have won nine outdoor weekly awards.

Freshman Wil London starred in his first collegiate meet in his hometown Saturday at the Baylor Invitational. The Waco, Texas, product nearly chased down Olympic gold medalist and former Baylor great Jeremy Wariner in the 400-meter dash, but was still the top collegian on the day with a time of 45.76. That mark is good for third-best in the NCAA for the current outdoor season. London also ran the anchor leg for the 4x400-meter relay that also consisted of Brandon Moore, Antwuan Musgrove and Caleb Dickson. The crew ran a stadium record time of 3:07.95 to win the event title.

Over 13 years of the outdoor award's existence, Baylor has had eight male athletes honored 12 times.

Baylor's athletes are currently in an off-week, before returning to action by hosting the Michael Johnson Invitational Saturday, April 23 at Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium.

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